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Proust’s Meditations

In her review of John Updike’s “Always Looking: Essays on Art” (Dec. 2), Francine Prose points out that Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” is “full of meditations on art that we may want to copy out and have embroidered on samplers.” Prose will be happy to learn that we can save ourselves the effort, because the painter Eric Karpeles has done the work for us in his “Paintings in Proust” (2008), a book that prints Proust’s meditations next to full-color reproductions of the paintings that inspired them. It’s a marvel.